Other than the candidate herself, no one will argue that Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign has been anything short of a disaster. Since day one, it’s been equal parts uninspired, unnecessary, ill-conceived, and mismanaged. From her Michelob Ultra schtick to her phony enthusiasm, Warren has proven herself to be every bit as out-of-touch and unlikable as Hillary Clinton, but she lacks Clinton’s massive political machine to compensate.

To be blunt, her efforts are dead in the water. Depending on the poll, she hovers somewhere between 4 and 9 percent. She has never managed to crack double digits.

So, she’s looking for attention.

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In order to generate interest, she’s decided to go to war with Alabama’s recent abortion law. Her remedy? A promise to cover free, at-will, abortions – presumably up to the moment of delivery – under her Medicare-for-all single-payer proposal.

In her plan, Warren said Congress should pass laws that provide statutory guarantees for rights established under Roe, invalidating laws like the one recently passed in Alabama, while also being durable enough to withstand a Supreme Court decision overturning it. Such statutory guarantees, she said, should prohibit states from interfering with both health care providers and patients seeking their care, including for abortions.

She also called further for federal guarantees to “preempt” other state efforts that limit access to reproductive health care without explicitly targeting Roe, and pointed to existing legislation called the Women’s Health Protection Act.

Warren’s proposal would have the federal government guarantee patient access to reproductive health care by undoing the Hyde amendment, a rule preventing federal money from going to abortion services, and by passing a law prohibiting insurers from restricting abortion.

Notably, Warren said “all future health coverage — including Medicare for All — includes contraception and abortion coverage.”

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It’s that last line that’s going to hurt Democrats.

If you recall, abortion coverage very nearly derailed the passage of ObamaCare. The Stupak Amendment, which forbade federal funding of abortion, helped the ACA through the House, and the similar Boxer-Nelson compromise (coupled with an Obama executive order) did the same in the Senate. Their efficacy is still debatable, but they were necessary because the idea of using taxpayer money to fund for abortion is deeply unpopular. It also faces challenges on a 1st Amendment religious rights basis.

In the Medicare-for-all debate, abortion has so far flown under the radar. Opposition has largely been based on things like rationing, price controls, availability, and quality of care. Elizabeth Warren just changed all that.

From this point forward, anyone who supports Medicare-for-all (and that’s basically every Democrat running) will immediately be asked if they support Warren’s position. If they say no, they’ll alienate the rabid leftist base. If they say yes, they’ll lose centrist support and wave goodbye to middle-America.

Assuming Republicans play their cards right, Elizabeth Warren – an also-ran with no chance of success – just put her entire party behind the eight ball.

Robert Laurie is a Michigan-based political columnist. In addition to his work for HermanCain.com he currently writes for TownHall and is a veteran of The Detroit News, The Daily Caller, and Breitbart. Follow him on Twitter @RobertLaurie